The Secret of Coal
This booklet was produced, in 1994, to be used at the service of dedication of the memorial window in St Leonards Church, Dinnington. Simon Bailey, the Rector who instigated the idea of a memorial window, also led the team who made it happen. The window is to remember not only the coming of the pit, the men who worked there and those who died but also the whole of the community whose lives were in any way influenced by the presence of the pit in the village. The window and the miners banner, which is also in the church, are perhaps the only reminders that during most of the 20th century Dinnington was a mining village.